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To: TobagoJack who wrote (32560)	4/8/2008 12:10:26 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217656

I think invited people should be citizens right away. Uninvited raiders should not become citizens at all. Descendants of uninvited raiders who have comingled with local yokels are a bit more tricky. If people were not treated as serfs, but as property owners of states by way of tradable citizenships, such problems would dramatically reduce. Life is different from 100 years ago when, as my aged uncle crudely put it on his 80th birthday a couple of decades ago, the old problem of who was up whom and who hadn't paid was universal. Maoris dealt with identity with some facial tattoos, so one would know who to hit with a mere in a fight, and what tribe one belonged to. Nowadays, we have good means of identification. We have genetic tests to really put definition on matters. Finger prints, irises, voices. Where people are born has been a useful deciding factor, but with easy travel, that has become problematic. Invited people are easy. I am not going to try to sort out a general rule for who is up whom and who hasn't paid. But tradable citizenship is a very good start. Mqurice